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HD Korea Shipbuilding & Offshore Engineering announced on July 29 that its Q2 operating profit surged 72.5% year-over-year to 1.6451 trillion won, exceeding analyst expectations. Revenue for the same period grew 20.2% to 8.927 trillion won, also surpassing market forecasts. The results were driven b

Clearpool launched a trade finance vault on July 28, 2026, in partnership with Tradevu and managed by Cicada Credit, enabling USDC liquidity providers to finance tokenized invoices, purchase orders, and letters of credit with a target yield of approximately 15% annually. The initiative connects

Standard Chartered Group (02888) announced first-half results ending June, reporting record pre-tax accounting profit of $4.784 billion, up 9.15% year-on-year. The bank raised its interim dividend 66% to 20.4 US cents per share and launched a $1 billion share buyback. The performance was driven by d

The inheritance tax for the late Professor Choi Jung-woon's Korea Zinc stake has been finalized at approximately 210.4 billion won, with the calculation period closing on the 27th. Professor Choi, uncle of Korea Zinc Chairman Choi Yun-beom, passed away in May, leaving a 1.51% stake (314,468

Led by Ohio Attorney General Andy Wilson, the attorneys general of 44 U.S. states sent a joint letter to the Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) on July 28, saying the CFTC does not have the authority to regulate sports-related event contracts on prediction market platforms. The joint letter asks the CFTC to rewrite its rules, clarifying that sports betting cannot be traded on designated contract markets and should be subject to state legal jurisdiction. Joint Letter From 44 Attorneys Ge

South Korea's Ministry of Trade, Industry and Energy announced on the 29th the official launch of the 'AI Data Center Alliance,' a government-private consultative body for the national strategic industrialization of artificial intelligence data centers (AIDC). The alliance involves the Ministry of S

SK Hynix revealed during its Q2 earnings call that the company is currently negotiating with major customers regarding the supply volume and pricing of high-bandwidth memory (HBM) for 2027, with positive progress. SK Hynix’s Q2 earnings also confirmed: HBM4 entered mass production and began shipping in Q2 2026, and the company will expand capacity in the second half of the year. HBM4E engineering samples were delivered to customers in the first half of the year. SK Hynix HBM Pricing Logic: Negot

Uniswap founder Hayden Adams on Tuesday rejected criticism of the protocol's newly activated v4 fees, stating that claims about reduced liquidity provider earnings are based on incorrect assumptions. Adams disputed assertions that the protocol takes 25% of LP profits, using a 30-basis-point pool

According to a July 29 report by Bloomberg, OceanBase (Beijing OceanBase Technology Co., Ltd.), a database company backed by Jack Ma, is in talks with investors for a Series A round. The company plans to raise about $295 million to $443 million to support independent operations and accelerate the development of its AI database business. Insiders said OceanBase’s annualized revenue in 2026 will exceed $200 million. OceanBase Series A round key data: annualized revenue exceeds $200 million Citing

Micron CEO Sanjay Mehrotra sold over 40,000 shares on July 24 for approximately $37.3 million, according to exchange filings disclosed on Tuesday. The transaction occurred under a pre-arranged Rule 10b5-1 trading plan as Micron stock declined 34% from its June 25 peak amid a broader memory chip

A Reddit user recently found that entering the search command “site:claude.ai/share” in Google could surface hundreds of Claude conversation records, exposing more than 200 conversations across at least 25 pages of search results, with some conversations appearing weeks earlier. Anthropic has added a noindex tag, and Google removed the related search results around July 26. Types of leaked content: crypto wallet credentials, clinical trial patient data, and unreleased product plans (Source: Redd

Jim Cramer advised investors to delay purchasing SpaceX (SPCX) stocks despite the stock hitting new lows on Tuesday, when it fell to $107.01 before recovering to close at $116.41. The stock has declined approximately 29% over the past month and now trades below its initial public

Keystone Partners is completing its acquisition of SSP, a semiconductor manufacturing equipment company, by the end of this month. The private equity firm is finalizing the transaction for 100% of SSP's shares, valued at approximately 400 billion KRW, using

Korean stock markets triggered circuit breakers on both the KOSPI and KOSDAQ exchanges on July 29, marking the first time in Korea Exchange history that dual circuit breakers have been activated on consecutive trading days. The KOSDAQ circuit breaker activated at 12:19 PM when the index fell 8.05% t

The Securities and Exchange Commission of the Philippines introduced the Verification of Electronic Records and Information Trust and Authentication System (VERITAS) under Memorandum Circular No. 23, Series of 2026. The blockchain-powered platform allows companies and registered entities to

Trust Wallet added WalletConnect support for the Tron network, enabling users to directly connect with decentralized applications built within the Tron ecosystem. Tron founder Justin Sun shared the announcement on July 28, 2026, indicating that Trust Wallet users can now establish direct

Hong Kong stocks extended gains in the morning session, with the Hang Seng Index rising 346 points or 1.37% to 25,657 points, driven by strength in technology and auto stocks. The index opened 176 points higher at 25,487 points and reached an intraday high of 25,744 points, up 434 points,

Hyperscalers will fund more than one-third of artificial intelligence investment capital through bond issuance next year, according to a Goldman Sachs forecast reported on 28th (local time) by Yahoo Finance. Goldman Sachs stated that while future debt issuance scale and composition remain

Korean treasury bond yields declined during the morning session as the stock market experienced sharp corrections, triggering risk-off sentiment among investors. The 3-year benchmark yield fell 0.8 basis points to 3.822%, while the 10-year yield dropped 1.2 basis points to 4.280% as of 11:11 AM.